UFO

Please note that some or all of the objects mentioned in this post are no longer visible on Google Earth or Google Maps.

Tensuns says:

I have no idea what this is. I can’t find anything similar on any google map referenced sites. It doesn’t show up on terraserver and I live nearby so I know there are no towers in that area. It has the same shadow as ground objects and when you zoom out it appears to be too small to be something really close to the satellite.

Hi, these are AERIAL PHOTOS at this level of zoom, not satellite imagery. These are simply the rounded, white plastic coated, heads of thumb-tacks used to hold down the photes while they are mosaiked and filmed!

I know what this is! I was wondering how far it would get. That is the blue silver party ballon that got away from me at my kids birthday party. The house on the right corner is mine. I swore it hit that plane!

“Iâ€™m guesing itâ€™s a bug in the software that google uses to put the satellite images together into a map.”

I tend to think that is the most likely scenario.

I also think that these images are SAT images not from a plane. Not sure why people keep saying they are taken from a plane…..do you not think that the satellites can zoom in that far? If thats what you are thinking you are crazy, they can get in much further than that, but normal civilians are not allowed to see those images.

This is not an orb. if you look close enough you can see that it is not to far from the camera. The outside line of it, it is blury and that is because it is to close to the camera. If you look at the houses they are to small, that means what ever this object is, it would be so big that every one would be out side looking at it. This object is between 30,000 and 50,000 feet maybe more, that is if it isn’t a hoax. Part of this picture is missing, there should be more to it.

As much as they always say that UFO people “want” these things to be UFO’s, I find the same is true for debunkers. They “want” things to be terrestrial and explainable so much that they will stretch their earthly explanations as illogically as those they claim do the same to say these things are UFO’s!

And that is no spot on the lense.

Logic tells me that UFO’s and aliens are a possibility.

How anyone can look back 150 years ago and then add up all the incredible things we have discovered about our world and the universe since then and then be so close minded to the possibility of thousands of other previously unknown wonderous things being revealed to us…is just irresponsibly ignorant and insecure.

J Parker: you know that for a fact? Guess not. Why’d you say it? No hostility, really, your post is just another example of people making stuff up and prefacing it as a known.

Then there are all those that think they have clever one liners without bothering to read and see that they’re only the fourth or fifth one to come up with the same lame shinola. Thanks for taking up space and contributing to our body of knowledge.

The geometric spacing eliminates any balloon-like craft or atmospheric phenomena. Further consideration of weather balloons as the source of the image is futile.

Artifact of the photographic process is certainly possible, though I can’t imagine what it might be. Some of the self proclaimed experts have assured us it’s water in liquid or solid form but can’t seem to make up their minds which (the optical properties are different). Pushpins… hahahaha…. I don’t think so.

One thing that has not been mentioned: whatever is taking the pictures, plane or satellite, is moving quite fast. If the object is physical and, as the blur SUGGESTS, is closer to the camera than the ground, then the object appears staionary with respect to the camera (i.e. the object is moving with the camera) or there would be a direction and gradient to the blur. Consider also that the apparent diameter (at least on the ones I’ve seen) is pretty much the same. This implies the object maintains a fixed location relative to the camera. Across the continent. Interesting.

This object looks just like one I saw in New Mexico a few months ago. I was driving east just before you get to Santa Rosa and saw this object in the air. At first I thought it was a baloon, but I watched it for around 200 miles until it got dark. I turned north at Tucumcari on 54 and watched it until dark. The sun was reflecting off of it also. I figured it had to be a huge object very high up in the air to be able to observe it for so many miles. I tried to find some information about it, but no luck. As soon as I saw the photo, I recognised it as the same thing I saw except mine view was from the ground.

Bill: thanks for the great one-liner. I lost my bowels on that one! You work clubs with that shtick, no doubt.

Another thing is that the illumination angles only sometimes match up with the objects on the ground and not all that closely. This argues against a real physical object, I think, unless the object is very close to the lens where lens aberration might distort angles.

You have shapes in the desert that are bombing targets. A place where it would most likely be seen on our planet. There was only one normal looking bombing target out there, in a palce where it is obvious they would drop bombs. A small little target in some black area where they did drop bombs.

You have a triangle with 6 rings in it.
And a jewish looking star with some symboles in the edges, that, to me look either like buildings or dug outs.

Then you have all your U.F.O. sightings that are basically weather baloons that we still use even though we got high tech satelights.

Yeah.

Then you got your pentagram down in Washington with all the masonic symbols.

None of it is normal. And those types of people can’t pull their heads out of their ass to see it.

Why doesn’t the media ever try to find the news to talk about it? What would cause an epedimic massive panic. Hysteria on the subject of it.

Doubts. Doubts in religion and evolution. Everything that has been put in the school text books, to waste.

What’s wrong with being wrong? What is so bad about it. Because you are afraid to die? Not to know where you came from. Or what may be in store for you. Is that why you DO NOT want it to be a UFO. And you try to find every way to make it a weather baloon.

When it is so f-n, obvious that all these symbols and shit. All these weird occurences STILL happen.

My educated guess is that this is an artifact of the camera lens. I’m thinking that you’re seeing sunlight reflected off the externally mounted secondary mirror of a reflector telescope. Notice that the effect is only noticable when the sun is low enough on the horizon to illuminate the mirror, or mirror housing. IE, it is not in the plane’s shadow. Why the Florida artifacts are in a grid is a bit of a mystery, but I would guess that it has something to do with the overflight pattern, and the way the mosaic is assembled.

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